| Description |
| On-screen: |
Marlowe runs to the house |
| Description: |
Dramatic action music that begins after a scream; dramatic gestures as Marlowe runs from his car, the murderers run to their car(s), and two cars drive away; Steiner borrowed this music from Crime School (1938), where it was used for an attempted prison break scene |
| Music annotations: |
[m. 1] ticks / f / sfz-p; [m. 3] sfz-p; [m. 5] sfz-p; [m. 6] marcato; [m. 10] marcato; [m. 13] f / sfz / cue; [m. 15] etc chromatic |
| Film annotations: |
[m. 1] Bogart runs; [m. 5] Stops; [m. 6] Door shut / Mans legs; [m. 7] Down - runs; [m. 9] Gets into car; [m. 10] Slams door; [m. 11] Bogart runs; [m. 12] Stops; [m. 15] Another car starts |
| Orchestration annotations: |
[m. 1] W.W. / strgs / gong / brass horns muted / basses / tuba / contra bassoon; [m. 2] 1. ob; [m. 3] cl; [m. 4] 2 f.; [m. 6] 1st piano / violas / violins / flts / oboes / W.W. and 3 trpts muted / timp gliss / timp / basses / cels / piano/ W.W. etc / trbs; [m. 8] add horns / timp; [m. 9] timp; [m. 10] W.W. col strgs / hand cymbal / horns and trpt in felt; [m. 12] trbs etc; [m. 13] trb / add vibra / horns + trpt / timp; [m. 15] gong |
| Analysis: |
The cue begins with a dissonant (01258) sonority, followed by rushing parallel diminished triads, then a descending sequential pattern featuring diminished 7ths over a rising chromatic gesture in the bass as we see feet running; the cue continues with a chromatic wedge gesture, with parallel diminished sevenths rising over a chromatically descending bass (and a dramatic tritone in the horns); a tense 7-note chord (0145679) is prolonged as Marlowe watches the cars drive away, followed by parallel descending half-diminished 7ths as the second car disappears |
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| Tags |
action scene | antagonist | chromatic parallelism | chromatic scale | chromatic sequence | chromatic wedge | diminished 7th chord | dramatic | hurrying | leading man | pc set | private eye | running | street | tense | underscoring
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